Petrer walks away from its commitment to BDS discrimination

The Plenary of the Petrer City Council approved yesterday by a majority the withdrawal of its adhesion to the anti-Semitic BDS movement, committed to discriminating Israeli companies and people, as well as non-Israeli organizations or persons supporting the Jewish state.

The motion of adhesion to the BDS was presented in the past by Podemos’ white label in Petrer, with the support of PSOE-PSPV, Compromís, and Esquerra Unida, and with Partido Popular and Ciudadanos voting against. Petrer is a town located in the province of Alicante, with 40.000 inhabitants.

Following ACOM’s legal actions, which exposed the illegality of this agreement, and after listening to the cry of the civil society in this locality, Mayor Alfonso Lacasa and his group have rectified. Thus, Petrer becomes again the entrepreneurial city council, open to all and that does not discriminate against anyone based on national, ethnic or religious origin, including the Jews.

A clearly anti-Semitic movement, the BDS is not only facing a firm response from our judicial system and our constitutional framework, with courts that deal blow after legal blow to its mafia-style, violent, and excluding strategy; but its Judeophobic outrages are also being curbed by a civil society and its increasingly sensitive representatives.